Current Events > Conservative Media struggling with possibility Trump killed Herman Cain

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https://newrepublic.com/article/158728/conservative-media-really-struggling-possibility-trump-killed-herman-cain

How did Herman Cain die? Tweets commemorating the former presidential candidate and pizza magnate, including from President Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, didnt mention a cause of death. They said he was an American success story and a great friend who just happened to die of something.

As someone who briefly led the Republican presidential primary in 2012, Cain is arguably the most famous American to die of Covid-19. He was also an inveterate culture warrior who opposed mask mandates and amplified skepticism of the dangers of coronavirus. Nine days before he tested positive for the virus, he was filmed without a mask in a tight crowd at Donald Trumps Tulsa rally. (At least eight White House staffers involved in the rally have tested positive for the virus.) It is entirely reasonable to propose that Trump, as well as the entire Republican industry built around resisting basic anti-virus safety protocols, bear some responsibility for his preventable death.

But that is a bridge that gets a little too close to reality for Republican politicians and their allies in conservative media, which have claimed that liberals have been polluting Cains memory by politicizing it. As usual, they got it backwards.

Between hawking brain pills, Ben Shapiro made the case that people who wear masks also die. There are plenty of people dying of this who have been wearing masks and have been being careful, he said. So spare me some of the crocodile tears on behalf of people who really are not happy with Herman Cains politics. Within minutes of Cains death, the right-wing website The Blaze had collected a series of tweets from people pointing out a simple factthat the former presidential candidate had died of coronavirustitled, Liberals waste absolutely zero time politicizing Herman Cains death and blaming Trump.

The Washington Examiners Byron York, meanwhile, told his readers to ignore the fact that Cain had died from Covid-19. Like everything else these days, he wrote, Cains death was immediately discussed in a Trump-anti-Trump context. It would be preferable and more humane, he insisted, to use Cains death as an occasion to ... remember Herman Cain. For York, this included a conversation the two had about pizza crusts during the 2012 campaign.

https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1289177570487894016

But Cains legacy is directly tied to Trump and the anti-science, anti-elitist politics that likely contributed to his death. His own political rise presaged Trumps. Beyond a core tax policy that would have bankrupted the Treasury (9-9-9), he had no real policy portfolio to speak of in 2012. He largely seemed to be making it all up as he went alonghis famous quip that he didnt care who the president of U-beky-beky-becky-stan-stan was summed up his ethos, which privileged the authentic over the prepared. He was a businessman who believed that all of Americas problems could be solved by running the country like a mediocre regional pizza chain.

He also made his bones playing to the partys ravenous base. His campaign promises were downright Trump-y. He was unapologetically Islamophobic, pledging not to appoint a Muslim to his cabinet. He said he would build a 20-foot electrified fence on the southern border that would kill anyone who attempted to cross into the country. Ta-Nehisi Coates at the time observed, I cant really recall a candidatein recent memorythat was as bigoted as Herman Cain.

Cains death was as political as his life was. We dont knowand may never knowexactly how he contracted the coronavirus. But the idea that his attendance at Trumps Tulsa rally is purely incidental is absurd. Cain, like Trump, has flouted the recommendations of public health officials. His politics contributed to his death, even if he contracted the virus somewhere other than Tulsa.

Those attempting to wall off politics from Cains death arent doing it to protect Cain. Theyre doing it to protect Trump. Trumps failure to organize Americas response to the virus has led to more than 150,000 deaths. Trumps megalomania led him to hold an indoor rally in Oklahoma at a time when coronavirus cases were surging. Trumps decision to turn basic precautions, like the wearing of face masks, into culture-war issues have only made the problem more difficult to resolve. Its worth noting that Trump politicized Cains death as well. Asked about Cain on Thursday, he didnt offer a eulogy. Unfortunately, Trump said, he passed away from a thing called the China virus."

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Hey wait a minute, I thought the libs were the ones who virtue signal
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Bio1590 posted...

Asked about Cain on Thursday, he didnt offer a eulogy. Unfortunately, Trump said, he passed away from a thing called the China virus."

He's such a penis.

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The night our CFO drove him to the hospital, they were both masked up. Did he wear it everywhere and in every situation? I dont know the answer to that,

lmao

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Ben Shapiro pointing out that people with masks die too doesn't change that he went to a political rally held indoors with thousands of people who weren't wearing masks or social distancing. Whether they want to accept it or not his death is political. If that rally wasn't held or if the followed safety protocols, there is a good possibility that he would be alive right now. If you can't deny this, then you can't say it's not political.

CrimsonRage posted...

U-beky-beky-becky-stan-stan

I miss when this was a disqualifying remark

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He could've gotten that virus anywhere, especially a guy still as busy and active as he was.

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Anyway, I hope the liberals who care so much about humanity and minorities don't take this opportunity to yet again dance on his grave.

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onedarksoul posted...

He could've gotten that virus anywhere, especially a guy still as busy and active as he was.

I can't believe gamefaqs tolerates fake-ass shit-stirrers like this guy^

Error can post all the babytalk threads he wants, but at least take out the trash posts while he's at it. It's literally the easiest thing in the world to distinguish troll posts.

onedarksoul posted...

He could've gotten that virus anywhere, especially a guy still as busy and active as he was.

Pathetic attempts at damage control

https://www.reddit.com/r/GhanaSaysGoodbye/comments/hk5u5d/herman_cain_says_goodbye/

Bio1590 posted...

Beyond a core tax policy that would have bankrupted the Treasury (9-9-9),

If only this writer knew just how much money printing we do and why we're able to get away with it.

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This isn't a war against COVID-19; it's a war against conservative rhetoric, misinformation, and pseudo-intellectualism

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A link from reddit doesn't qualify as proof.

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onedarksoul posted...

A link from reddit doesn't qualify as proof.

Neither does crap pulled from your ass, but you seem to rely on that...

Platoe posted...

I can't believe gamefaqs tolerates fake-ass shit-stirrers like this guy^

Error can post all the babytalk threads he wants, but at least take out the trash posts while he's at it. It's literally the easiest thing in the world to distinguish troll posts.

The trolls are more the people so eager to dance on his grave, like you.

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onedarksoul posted...

The trolls are more the people so eager to dance on his grave, like you.

poop ma pants

Oh, an alt. My mistake for wasting time on this.

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onedarksoul posted...

Oh, an alt. My mistake for wasting time on this.

poop

ma pants

St. Peter, speaking German for some reason: Nein nein nein
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onedarksoul posted...

Oh, an alt. My mistake for wasting time on this.

Alts calling out alts

Spare me with the this is my only account! shit
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I will spare you from the truth then.

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Doom_Art posted...

I miss when this was a disqualifying remark

racism against the Middle East was unfortunately never a disqualifying remark

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onedarksoul posted...

I will spare you from the truth then.

You're a Trump supporter, the truth is as foreign to you as palm trees are to polar bears

His argument is going to be well ACTUALLY my old account got banned so technically Im not an alt

What a sad and tired life it must be acting the way he does constantly
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onedarksoul posted...

He could've gotten that virus anywhere, especially a guy still as busy and active as he was.

He couldve gotten it anywhere because he wasnt wearing a mask anywhere

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Republicans are the party of mass death

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From a party that 'Christian'. They don't show any Christ like attitude nor love their enemies.

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pathetic seeing trumpers troll with his death

TheGoldenEel posted...

racism against the Middle East was unfortunately never a disqualifying remark

Wasn't that more him just straight up admitting he's politically and foreignly ignorant and didn't care, more than actual racism?

The person even asked him about Uzbekistan specifically.
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onedarksoul posted...

Oh, an alt. My mistake for wasting time on this.

lmao this sure aged well

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